woodythegent

Take a dash of Ozark, add a pinch of Bad Monkey, throw in a whiff of Breaking Bad, and a tiny essence of Dexter, mix in terrible cliched writing and a few TV formulas, and you end up with this idiotic mess. The protagonists of the show are seen smuggling cocaine OUT of local waters (why would they even do this??) and they get involved with bad guys who are likewise taking drugs from the shore out to sea, and kraziness and Kaos ensue. Besides the story making zero sense, the acting is so ridiculously bad it actually makes you laugh. The actor who plays the father seems to be trying to recreate the Fred Ward father character in Road Trip, except that was a comedy and Fred was SUPPOSED to be over-the-top crazy. Everyone else in the cast is so impossibly beautiful and handsome I started to feel I was watching a Hallmark movie. I guess you could call this mindless escapism, but it has enough mindlessness for 10 shows.

Most people these days have short attention spans, and their interest is only piqued by action-filled thrillers with plot twists and sex. This short series is not for these people, nor for low IQ people who thrive on right-wing media. It's for thinking, intelligent people who understand what true art is and who know that they don't need to be blasted with entertainment for the art to work. This series goes thoroughly into the psychology of a teenage boy who murders his classmate, and it examines the massive impact that the crime has on his family, schoolmates, police, and psychologists who are involved in the case. It is slow-paced, and the acting is absolutely superb. I found the continuous shooting to be extremely effective in telling the story, as it makes the viewer feel as if they are part of the scene as it unfolds. If you enjoy thinking about things and not just being bombarded with mindless cliched formulaic nonsense, this series is for you. If you prefer the latter, don't bother.

This is an absolutely brilliant satire of the modern "tech bro" business climate where certain megalomaniacal billionaires have elevated themselves to the status of brilliant all-knowing geniuses and visionaries. They've convinced their employees that working to deliver packages of Chinese junk or building plastic electric cars or self-exploding rocket ships is a noble endeavor that is worth sacrificing all semblance of a private life. This show is a wake-up call to these drones that they're being used and abused by these uncaring sociopaths and that there is more to life than making impossibly rich people even richer. And not only is the satire brilliant, but the acting is perfect and the photography is stunning.

Ignore the bad reviews, all of whom are written by voters of a certain gullibility who are bored of anything that's not spelled out explicitly and who are incapable of understanding anything beyond a third-grade level of sophistication.